"Peach Blossom Still" comes from Cui Hu's famous work "South Village of Beijing" in the Tang Dynasty, which means that when I come here again today, the girl is gone, and only the peach blossom is still in full bloom with a smile in the spring breeze.
The specific original text is as follows:
Last spring, in this door, the girl's face contrasted with the peach.
Today, I came here again. I don't know where the girl went. Only the peach blossoms are still there, smiling in full bloom in the spring breeze.
Translation:
Last spring, in this door, the girl's face set off a bright peach blossom.
When I came here again today, the girl didn't know where she had gone. Only peach blossoms are still smiling and blooming in the spring breeze.
Literary appreciation
The whole poem consists of four sentences, including two identical and mutually reflecting scenes.
Scene 1: Seeking for Spring and Meeting Beauty-"On this day last year, in this door, people's faces and peaches set each other off." The poet captured the most beautiful and moving scene in the whole process of "seeking spring and meeting beauty" "Peach blossoms set each other off in red", which not only set a beautiful background for "peach blossoms", but also set off the radiant face of the girl, implicitly expressing the poet's infatuation and emotion, as well as the situation that the two sides were unable to communicate deeply.
The second scene: find again. It is still the season of spring, or the gateway where flowers and trees are in full bloom and peach trees are hidden. However, the "human face" that adds luster to all this has gone nowhere, and only a peach blossom in front of the door is still smiling in the spring breeze. The association of spring breeze peach blossom laughter comes from "peach blossom and human face reflect red"
On this day last year, the girl I met unexpectedly standing under the peach tree must have a deep smile; Today's peach blossom, with a sad face and a smile, can only arouse the feeling of good memories of the past and the absence of good times. The word "return" contains infinite disappointment.
In fact, the whole poem takes "human face" and "peach blossom" as the running clues, and through the comparison between "last year" and "today", the poet's feelings caused by these two different experiences are expressed in a tortuous way. Contrast and thinking play an extremely important role in this poem.
Because it is written in the memory of the beautiful things that have been lost, the memory is particularly precious, beautiful and full of feelings, which is a vivid description of "peach blossoms set each other off"; It is precisely because of such beautiful memories that I feel particularly disappointed to lose something beautiful, so I have the feeling that "people don't know where to go, but peach blossoms still smile proudly in the spring breeze".